The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism.
Contents:
- GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- AS CATHOLIC SEX ABE CRISIS DEEPENS, CONSERVATIVE CIRCL BLAME GAY PRITS
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- THE GAY CHURCH
- "GAY" PRITS AND INDULGENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY
GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
Some nservative Catholics are blamg clergy sex abe on gay prits, cg "homosexual works" the church. The argument reflects wir cultural and polil nflict Catholic circl. * homosexual priests sin *
When early Christian mentators such as John Chrysostom, one of the most prolific biblil wrers of the fourth century, cricized homosexual acts, was typilly part of an ascetic nmnatn of all sexual experienc. "Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s.
Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga. ” And yet, thoands of the church’s prits are stori of gay prits are unspoken, veiled om the outsi world, known only to one another, if they are known at than about 10 prits the Uned Stat have dared to e out publicly. And yet proment bishops have sgled out gay prits as the root of the problem, and right-wg media anizatns attack what they have lled the church’s “homosexual subculture, ” “lavenr mafia, ” or “gay bal.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
1969: Digny, the first group for LGBTQ Catholics, is found. The Stonewall Rts, the begng of the gay rights movement, follow a police raid. * homosexual priests sin *
”The sexual revolutn happeng outsi semary walls might as well have happened on the moon, and natnal ton the fight for gay rights, like the Stonewall rts, on prit a ral dce said the l remd him of how his elementary school forced left-hand stunts to wre wh their right hand. When the abe crisis broke out aga last summer, the former Vatin ambassador to the Uned Stat, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, acced “homosexual works” of Amerin rdals of secretly workg to protect abers. “Instead of seeg creased acuntabily on the parts of the bishops, uld bee once aga a nmnatn of lbian, gay, transsexual people wh the church, ” John Coe, 63, a permanent an Kentucky, who me out last year, said about the summ.
One cint that brgs the issue to md is an Associated Prs release on March 3, 2006 that not that the publisher of a weekly newspaper Cameroon (where homosexualy is illegal) was sentenced to four months jail for publishg the nam of people alleged to be gay or lbian.
Members of the foreign prs rps Rome talk eely among themselv about the orientatn of Pop: Pi XII (divid opn), John XXIII, heterosexual, Pl VI, homosexual, John Pl II, heterosexual, and Benedict XVI, homosexual.
AS CATHOLIC SEX ABE CRISIS DEEPENS, CONSERVATIVE CIRCL BLAME GAY PRITS
The Roman Catholic Church nnot re-tablish s tegry or s credibily until is clear about the distctn between sexual orientatn and behavr; between homosexualy and pedophilia; and the real meang of celibate practice. Their ncln is that was a other words, the Biblil assertn that homosexualy is a s—the talyst for an entire shift culture, wh polil repercsns, relig implitns, nsequenc for LGBT rights and acceptance, and, ankly, adly rults—was, they allege, a a new film asserts, was “the mise of a sgle word that changed the urse of history. Moreover, there’s g to terms wh the notn that human error uld be rponsible for the stokg of homophobia—a mdset of hatred, opprsn, and relig natnalism that has fed the last 75 years of our anyone has even seen the film, there has been an anized effort to attack and bunk the film’s claims.
12, we spoke wh Rogg about the work she did (along wh scholars and activists Kathy Baldock and Ed Oxford) to meticuloly substantiate the film’s claims, the challenge of gettg through to a Christian muny that ref even to hear the evince, and how a documentary like this uld change the the Thgs the Bible Wants to Execute You ForI grew up the church, but I am still someone who found the ia of “homosexual” beg a mistranslatn the Bible to be shockg. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cricized laws that crimalize homosexualy as “unjt, ” sayg God lov all his children jt as they are and lled on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ people to the church. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to harass homosexuals, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ people.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
The Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. In 2019, Francis had been expected to issue a statement opposg crimalizatn of homosexualy durg a meetg wh human rights groups that nducted rearch to the effects of such laws and so-lled “nversn therapi.
The policy is also set forth many other clearly word texts om the Scriptur that forbid homosexual acts, adultery, fornitn and other lewd nduct: Ephians 5:5-7; Galatians 5:16-21; Revelatn 21:5-8; Revelatn 22:14-16; Matthew 15:19-20; Matthew 5:27-30; 1 Corthians 6:9-20; Colossians 3:5-6; 1 Thsalonians 4:1-8; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Hebrews 13:4; Levic 18:22; Levic 20:13; Genis 19; Romans 1:1-18, and 1 Timothy 1:8-11, among others.
We mt not allow charg of tolerance, homophobia and spegoatg to supprs a ank discsn and analysis of the lk of much of this misbehavr to active homosexuals, and a subculture among some of them that tolerat and promot behavr which God forbids. Pope Francis recently reerated the policy that the Catholic Church nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled “gay culture. "It seems clear light of the recent terrible sndals, " Burke said, "that ed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even wh the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root.
THE GAY CHURCH
Conflatg homosexualy and sexual abe Bishop Robert Morlo of Madison, Wisns, wrg to Catholics his dce last month, noted that the recent cints of clergy abe volved "viant sexual — almost exclively homosexual — acts by clerics. " When terviewed later about his letter on the Catholic televisn work EWTN, Morlo was asked what he would say to those Catholics who read his ments as blamg homosexualy for the problems the church.
"Our church's very unhealthy attus about sexualy general and homosexualy particular really need to be addrsed, " says Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignyUSA, a Catholic LGBT advocy group. In an open letter released last month, the former Vatin ambassador to the Uned Stat, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, sgled out several top Catholic rdals and bishops as beg plic the abe crisis bee of their associatn wh what he lled a "homosexual current" Catholic circl. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?
"GAY" PRITS AND INDULGENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY
Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church? I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage.
And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle.